Mountain wildflowers of Colorado and New Mexico captured by Leonard Foltz during a spectacular blooming season in late July, 2014. Photographer Leonard Foltz is co-owner of Dancing Oaks Nursery in... More > Monmouth, Oregon and is passionate about plants both large and small, wild or cultivated. When possible, he loves to travel the world and to see and photograph plants growing in their native environments.
All the plants pictured in this calendar are native except for the Musk Thistle which has been introduced but now grows in the wild. www.dancingoaks.com
Print Details: 11" x 8.5", coil binding, white interior paper (100# weight), full-color interior ink< Less

Dusty pueblos adorned with adobe houses, each with a man sitting against a wall, a large sombrero tipped over his face, heavy snoring sounds emitting from underneath that hat; barefoot Indian women... More > and children walking through the dusty, cobbled streets. These were the first images that came to mind when Ian Middleton thought of Mexico. But was it really like that? He had read James A Michener's historical novel on Mexico, and it had portrayed a country of rich cultural diversity. These are the things that had ignited in Ian a burning desire to see this country for himself.
As a novice traveller this was an extremely daring move. Especially as he would be travelling alone. Ian knew nobody in Mexico. Although he’d travelled the year before for the first time in Australia, he’d had the advantage of knowing people there. This would his first real trip in a foreign land completely alone.< Less

Book #906: The History of the Arrival of the Indians. Mexican Jesuit was Juan de Tovar (1546-1626). Manuscript on the Aztec was made at Mexico in 1585. John Carter Brown Library at Providence, Rhode... More > Island. It has 170 leaves and you will see it complete in 170 pages in color.< Less

A description of the expeditions of Gen. Thomas James into the Upper Missouri River Region as an employee of the Missouri Fur Company in 1809 and two expeditions to Santa Fe as a trader in 1811 and... More > again 1822. A very important primary source book for this period in early American history, the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade, and the Santa Fe Trade.< Less

Aztec legends warned of the fearsome return of a white, bearded god from across the seas who would destroy their civilization.
This prediction came true with the arrival on American shores of... More > Hernando Cortés. Leading a small band of ruthless, determined Spaniards, Cortés and hundreds of thousands of Indian allies marched into the Aztec capital city Tenochtitlan, and, after incredible adventures, finally laid waste to that metropolis and rebuilt it into modern-day Mexico City.
This is the full, incredible-but-true story of how a few hundred Europeans overturned history. Important revelations in this book include:
- That smallpox was brought to the Americas not by Europeans, but a Negro in Spanish service; and
- That despite propaganda about “guns and steel,” the Spaniards would not have succeeded in overthrowing the Aztec Empire had the surrounding Indian tribes, long victims of their cruel neighbors, not provided hundreds of thousands of warriors in the final sacking of Tenochtitlan.< Less

Aztec legends warned of the fearsome return of a white, bearded god from across the seas who would destroy their civilization.
This prediction came true with the arrival on American shores of... More > Hernando Cortés. Leading a small band of ruthless, determined Spaniards, Cortés and hundreds of thousands of Indian allies marched into the Aztec capital city Tenochtitlan, and, after incredible adventures, finally laid waste to that metropolis and rebuilt it into modern-day Mexico City.
This is the full, incredible-but-true story of how a few hundred Europeans overturned history. Important revelations in this book include:
- That smallpox was brought to the Americas not by Europeans, but a Negro in Spanish service; and
- That despite propaganda about “guns and steel,” the Spaniards would not have succeeded in overthrowing the Aztec Empire had the surrounding Indian tribes, long victims of their cruel neighbors, not provided hundreds of thousands of warriors in the final sacking of Tenochtitlan.< Less

History of the Conquest of Mexico: With a Preliminary View of Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortes By William Hickling Prescott.
Illustrations from the... More > Montezuma Edition.
Prescott expressed interest in his correspondence in writing a biography of Molière, and Ticknor records that he sent Prescott "a collection of about 50 volumes" of relevant material. However, after writing to Ángel Calderón de la Barca, a Spanish minister living in Mexico, who was able to provide source material, Prescott started research on what was to become the History of the Conquest of Mexico.
There was relatively little scholarship on Aztec civilization, and Prescott dismissed much of it as "speculation", and he therefore had to rely almost exclusively on primary sources. He considered Edward King's theory that the pre-Columbian civilizations were non-indigenous to be fallacious, although he was greatly indebted to him for his anthology of Aztec codices in the Antiquities of Mexico.< Less

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